Optimizations always bust things, because all optimizations are, in the long haul, a form of cheating, and cheaters eventually get caught.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts…

If ease of use was the highest goal, we'd all be driving golf carts.

In computer science, it is said that premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Marcia: Lovely. Yeah, go the rock chick. Yeah, um, you've been so great through this competition. Um, we've said no, you've come back blah blah blah blah. (sic…

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.